Night Sweats...

On occasion I wake up various times during the night (to go to the bathroom) and discover that I had been sweating in my sleep. More often it's just on my pillow. I wonder if this is at all common with Crohns or UC. I've had a terrible flare since 2010 that's ongoing.

I do take various pills and tablets before bed. Almost every night I take benadryl. My sleep is complicated. The doctor has tried giving me Ambien and other similar drugs, but the problem is getting up for the bathroom at various points in the night. With benadryl I can make myself sleepy for a longer period of time so that after I'm done in the bathroom I can try to get back to my sleep quicker.

I am currently only taking OTC medicines (Immodium, Tylenol, Benadryl, Etc.) and VSL#3 capsules. My doctor has started neglecting and not returning my calls after I finished a research drug and got declined for Humira. I may not get my UC drugs until I find another GI doctor. My UC is flaring, but I'm somewhat stable and may have to hold out and hope that Humira is approved by the FDA at the end of the year.

I never had nightsweats with prednisone. I spent months with less than a few seconds at a time of sleep on that stuff - pain killers was the only thing that gave me a minute or more of shuteye.

Post Edited (xeekk) : 9/8/2012 8:41:58 PM (GMT-6)

I always experienced night sweats when I had UC. Sometimes it was worse than other times. Prednisone was the main culprit when I was on it but my doctor told me at one time that anemia can also cause night sweats.

I would get night sweats from taking hydocot enemas. Very sensitive to cortisone . Pred had sweats big time.

I do too. I attribute it to either the azathioprine or prednisone as I have never noticed when I was not on those drugs.

If it's not due to medications it kind of makes you wonder if some kind of virus is causing both the UC and the night sweats. I'm about 100% sure that my UC is caused by the Epstein Barr Virus residing in my colon with my immune system constantly battling the virus, causing inflammation. Before being diagnosed with UC two years ago I wound up in the hospital with a horrible migraine headache and unrelenting fever which caused a lot of night sweats. I think viruses, fevers and sweats kind of go hand in hand. My UC began while I was in the hospital for that. It wasn't until later that the doctors figured out that I had actually had Mono and I was officially diagnosed with UC shortly after getting out of the hospital.

i had night sweats while on a flare but i think this was because of the fevers induced by the uc blood toxification because I wasn't on any drugs at the time. i'm now on pred and the night sweats continue. i can't tell if the sweats are from the pred -- which i gather from local posts causes night sweats -- or if they're from the uc which i believe were causing my sweats previously